Greenberg, Elinor

Elinor Miller Greenberg has spent her life bringing adult education to a diverse range of non-traditional students. In 1971, she was the founding director of University Without Walls at Loretto Heights College in Denver, Co., an individualized baccalaureate program that offered academic credit based on contracted new learning in a variety of settings and on evaluated prior non-college learning based on adult life skills. In 1986, she created PATHWAYS to the Future, a $15M, 14-state training/retraining program for over 40,000 non-management employees of U.S. West, represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. She was Vice Chair of the Colorado State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education under Colorado Governor Richard Lamm; and co-chaired the Colorado Women's Leadership Economic Development Council under Governor Roy Romer, to develop women's economic growth in the workforce. In 1991, she founded EMG and Associates, a consulting and publishing firm which has used adult development and learning styles to train women and minorities for leadership in the non-profit sector. IN 1996, she led a 16-partner consortium, the Mountain and Plains Partnership (MAPP) to develop an inter-institutional online masters degree program for Nurse Practitioners, Nurse-Midwives and Physicians' Assistants in underserved areas of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona, based at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She has authored 9 books and many articles on lifelong learning, institutional change, adult development, and various aspects of the lengthening life cycles.

From the description of Elinor Miller Greenberg papers, 1970-2008 [manuscript]. (Orange Public Library). WorldCat record id: 232641963